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SH3 Working Party Booklet 2014 FOREWORD Taranaki Regional Council established the State Highway 3 Working Party in 2002 in response to ongoing concerns about the route security, safety and efficiency of the section of State Highway 3 (SH3) between Taranaki and Waikato. In particular, there has been a focus on the section of SH3 between Piopio and New Plymouth. For some years this section of the state highway network has been of considerable concern to local Taranaki and Waikato communities, as well as road users travelling between the regions. Severe weather events and heavy goods vehicle accidents have resulted in frequent road closures or restricted operation of the highway, contributing to negative perceptions of the route. Particular sections of this state highway at risk are Mount Messenger, the Uruti Valley and Awakino Gorge. These areas also have very poor cellular phone coverage which compounds safety and operational issues when incidents do occur. Increasing public complaints therefore called for action to improve the standard and reliability of the route, with the first meeting of the SH3 Working Party (the Working Party) held on 26 August 2002, comprising both regional councils and identified stakeholders. A higher level strategic group known as the SH3 Working Party Steering Group (the Steering Group) has since been established to assist the Working Party at a higher strategic level. The first meeting of the Steering Group was held on 27 July 2011. Members of this group include Regional Transport Committee Chairs from both regions, programme managers from both regions and the relevant regional directors of the NZ Transport Agency. A booklet reviewing the work of the SH3 Working Party was produced in 2007 by the then Chair of the Taranaki Regional Council Chair, David Walter. This booklet is an update of that previous resource, compiled in partnership by the Taranaki and Waikato regional councils on behalf of the SH3 Working Party. It focuses on the work of the SH3 Working Party and the improvements made to the route during its time. Please note that this booklet is not intended to duplicate work undertaken elsewhere, rather reference is made within this document to specific reports and studies undertaken on the route. In particular, the reader is directed to The Road Ahead: Economic Development Study on SH3 North for more detailed information on this important transport link. July 2014 Word doc # 1034797_v6 PDF doc # 1374672 1 2 CONTENTS Foreword .................................................................................................................................................... 1 Contents ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 The Route ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Map ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Key characteristics .................................................................................................................................. 6 Key issues ............................................................................................................................................... 7 The SH3 Working Party............................................................................................................................... 9 Background to establishment of the SH3 Working Party ....................................................................... 9 Meetings of the SH3 Working Party ..................................................................................................... 10 Organisations involved ......................................................................................................................... 10 Key benefits of the SH3 Working Party ................................................................................................ 10 Review of route issues.............................................................................................................................. 11 Securing funding for major improvements .......................................................................................... 11 Passing opportunities ........................................................................................................................... 12 The Awakino Gorge and Mount Messenger sections of SH3 ............................................................... 14 Other route improvements – shape corrections, surface rehabilitation etc ....................................... 16 Route security and safety – road closures and serious crashes ........................................................... 18 Cellular phone coverage and lifeline issues ......................................................................................... 19 Improved publicity/profile for the route.............................................................................................. 20 Negative perceptions of the route ....................................................................................................... 21 Relevance of the Working Party today ..................................................................................................... 21 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................ 22 Studies undertaken .................................................................................................................................. 22 Past and present members of the Working Party .................................................................................... 23 Terms of Reference .................................................................................................................................. 25 Completed Major Improvements 2001-2014 .......................................................................................... 29 Maps - Cell phone coverage and serious crashes .................................................................................... 30 Maps - Passing lanes and serious crashes ................................................................................................ 32 Maps - Road works and serious crashes .................................................................................................. 34 3 THE ROUTE State Highway 3 (SH3) between Hamilton and New Plymouth follows the coast from New Plymouth north to Mokau where it crosses the Mokau River and winds inland, eventually meeting SH4 and SH30 near Te Kuiti. The section between Urenui and Piopio is of particular concern for the Working Party and community, with the terrain and weather conditions often combining to threaten route security in this area. These parts of the inter-regional corridor are windy, narrow and widely regarded as inadequate; with two major constraints for users at Mount Messenger and the Awakino Gorge (refer Figure 1). It is also an area with relatively high crash rates. Crashes are the leading cause of SH3 closures, however slips are common in the Awakino Gorge which also result in closures to the highway. These route closures disrupt existing traffic, and undermine people’s perceptions about transport security to and from Taranaki as a whole. Network resilience is reduced in an event (such as a slip or crash) because: There are few or no convenient alternative routes to deviate around an incident for much of the distance. The distance to emergency services is significant causing slow response times. Cell phone and radio coverage is limited on those sections of the route most prone to events, hampering emergency services’ effectiveness. SH3 near Tongaporutu looking south to Mt Taranaki 4 Map Figure 1: Map showing the section of the SH3 corridor which is the focus of the Working Party, including the political boundaries and general topography 5 Key characteristics SH3 between Hamilton and New Plymouth has a number of key characteristics that dictate its difference to other main inter-regional land transport routes. These include: It is the only arterial inter-regional route that directly connects Taranaki to the North. It ensures that agricultural, oil and gas, and other products important to the regional and national economy, get to processing and manufacturing sites and from there to national and international markets. Although the route is scenic, it passes through high risk terrain, with slips common in the Awakino Gorge. A high proportion of the vehicles that use this route are heavy commercial vehicles Motunui methanol plant on SH3 north of New Plymouth (HCV’s), carrying everything from heavy machinery to chemicals, domestic milk consumption supplies, fuel supplies, logging, feed supplements, fertilisers and livestock. All of the LPG supplied to the Golden Triangle (Auckland, Tauranga and Hamilton – which involves an average of 70 trucks per week) travels via this strategic route. It allows Taranaki’s heavy engineering industry to transport product both domestically and internationally. Trucking company stakeholders and other SH3 along Taranaki’s northern coastline industry representatives that deal with large industrial equipment note that the route is difficult for HCV’s. Trucking industry costs are up to 30% higher on SH3 north (for
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